Fortified with bulletproof glass, does the Eiffel tower still look beautiful?
The thick bulletproof glass walls and metal fences now fortify the Eiffel Tower, which is designed to protect France's most famous monument from terrorist attacks.
Standing firmly on the Champ de Mars on the banks of the river Seine in Paris, the Eiffel Tower is one of the most famous buildings in the world, designed by the architect Alexander Gustav Eiffel. The Iron Lady Tower was built in 1889 to commemorate the 100 year of the French Revolution.
Open to the public from the 1950, the Eiffel Tower is a characteristic building with the most visited romantic nuance in the world. 7 million people visit here every year.
The Eiffel tower's charm for the tourism world is what makes the French government feel the need to protect it strictly.
The increased security measures carried out since a year ago were also shown France is still wary of high levels. There is a secret room at the top of the Eiffel tower.
The French Government is still aware of the dangers of terrible terrorist attacks at entertainment venues in Paris that killed 130 people in November 2015. Until this year, a recorded 240 people were killed in the country due to terrorist attacks.
The new walls, which were shown to reporters during a tour of the site on Thursday, were part of the security measures that cost nearly 35 million euros (more than half a trillion rupiah) and will be completed in mid-July next.
A glass wall of 6.5 cm (2.5 inches) thick will be mounted along the banks of the Quai Branly Boulevard and Avenue Gustave Eiffel which separates the tower from the garden.
The walls, which are bulletproof and resistant to vehicle-ramming attacks, are the "rock-solid for absolute security ", said Bernard Gaudillere, head of The Société D'exploitation de la Tour Eiffel (SETE), the company that runs the Eiffel tower.
The other two sides will be fenced with metal obstacles formed from curved forks in the form of the tower itself and at a height of 3.24 meters, standing exactly a hundredth of the height "Iron Lady ". The Eiffel tower is a gigantic steel structure that is 324 meters tall.
Gaudillere said his team worked with the police to decide how to best secure the monument that had repeatedly extinguish the twinkling lights in the night to commemorate victims of terrorist attacks around the world.
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The new steps of the French Government of course have the tourists increasingly confident of their safety during their visit here.
The tourist who visited the site was Thursday saying they felt assured by new measures. "That's a great idea – when I see this I feel safer, " says Edyta Poncyljusz, who visited from Warsaw to the Eiffel Tower last Thursday.
The same opinion was also conveyed by David Luke, from the US state of Utah. According to him as long as the tourist is no longer free to walk under the tower as did the case the last time he visited four years ago. Therefore, he praised the idea of fortifying the tower from the terrorist attack.
It's just that David Luke added, "It's uncomfortable and a bit annoying, but we're used to security measures in the US – go through a metal detector just for basketball matches. "
Like other French tourist sites, anti-terror troops do patrol regularly in this tower. In fact, for the meganimancipation of terrorist acts then the front yard under the iron structure has been fenced because since June 2016.
Gaudillere admitted that the fence while it was very unaesthetic because of damaging the site's appearance, but promised the end result would be "much better and more romantic ". Understandably, although made of cold metal, the Eiffel tower is a symbol of romance.
In fact, according to Gaudillere, the work of the building did not bend the number of visitors, which is still estimated to reach seven million in 2018. "Tourists can still access the garden and front yard under the tower for free after passing the security fence," he said.
The walls are part of the Eiffel Tower change, with most of the work going on before the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
